TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Individual change after genocide in Bosnian survivors of "ethnic cleansing": assessing personality dysfunction
JO  - Journal of Traumatic Stress
A1  - Weine, S. M.
A1  - Becker, D. F.
A1  - Vojvoda, D.
A1  - Hodzic, E.
A1  - Sawyer, M.
A1  - Hyman, L.
A1  - Laub, D.
A1  - McGlashan, T. H.
SP  - 147
EP  - 153
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
N2  - The authors used the SCID-DES (disorders of extreme stress) instrument to assess for personality change in Bosnian survivors of "ethnic cleansing." Twenty four refugees underwent systematic, trauma-focused, research assessments, including the SCID-DES interview. Overall, this group of Bosnian survivors had been severely traumatized as a result of the Serbian nationalists' genocide. However, no subject met diagnostic criteria for DES. The SCID-DES yields far lower rates of trauma-related personality change in Bosnian survivors of genocide than in adult survivors of prolonged early life traumas. Therefore, the DES construct may have better application to prolonged, interpersonal, early life traumas than to the prolonged, communal traumas of genocide.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0894-9867
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1024469418811
ID  - ref1
ER  -